Films

“Everything that we touch ends up – even if you think it's about sea or beach or anything – it ends up political” - Rajwat

Exploring the physical, political and moral invisibility of US drone warfare in Pakistan

Following the money to expose organised crime and corrupted corporate power

The Syrian Archive is a Syrian initiative that strives to promote sustainable peace and respect for human rights within Syrian society through facilitating justice and accountability.

Carmen Weisskopf​ and Domagoj Smoljo are contemporary artists that make up !Mediengruppe Bitnik, an artist collective based in Zürich, Switzerland.

Interviewing writer, artist and technologist, James Bridle about his work.

M.C. McGrath is a hacker and an activist based in Berlin, Germany and is the creator of Transparency Toolkit. This Toolkit provides a set of tools to collect data from various open data sources. McGrath also created ICWATCH, a database of an estimated 27,000 LinkedIn resumes of people who work in the intelligence sector.He uses this database to find information about the intelligence community, surveillance programmes and other information that is very much private but that has been posted publi...

Mari Bastashevski's work deliberately blurs the line between art, research, writing and investigation. She focuses on issues of systemic failure and international conflict profiteering and the information vacuum that surrounds these issues.

Ingrid Burrington talks here about growth of Occupy movement, why she got involved, how we look at maps.

Jesus Robles Maloof is a human rights defender in Mexico. He talks to us about the conviction needed to do the work he does, against a backdrop of organised crime and a violent, low-frequency conflict.

Niccolo Figa-Talamanca is the Secretary General of No Peace Without Justice, and works specifically on conflict mapping, a practice that tries to tell stories in three dimensions by putting together testimonies from different people during a conflict. He then uses that information to try to reconstruct how decision makers decide to employ their forces on the ground, with the ultimate objective of making it more expensive to choose atrocities as the way to gain or retain power

Smari has many hats. His default one is as Director of the International Modern Media Institute, but sometimes he is a member of the Icelandic Pirate Party and sometimes a member of the Peer to Peer Foundation. Sometimes he is the Icelandic Digital Freedom Society, and sometimes he is an information activist, or a hacker...

As well as being a research specialist at the MIT Center for Civic Media, Rahul does a lot of facilitation work. His original background is in robotics and education, and here he talks to us about his research into how information and stories move in today's information ecosystems. He gives tips on how to work with Big Data using new tools, explains why the notion of “completeness” in a story is a myth, and how he uses his “smell test” to weed out unreliable information.

Lydia has worked with Spain-based Access Info for several years, working to promote a stronger right of access to information as a tool to fight corruption. She tells us here about her work supporting citizens exercising their rights to access information and how the movement has evolved in recent years, boosted by the Wikileaks cables and the Open Government Partnership. But she stresses the importance of going beyond a 'round of applause' for transparency laws, to proper implementation and gen...

Brett explored the inner workings of the financial sector from the trading room floor, before leaving the finance sector and returning to his activist activities. Here he describes how, despite its complexity, we shouldn't think of financial systems as a 'black box'. Instead, activists can learn intuitively about it as an ecosystem, then work with others to create a disruptive vision of the finance world.